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Judy Panko Reis, who has dealt with partial paralysis and vision impairment since 1980, is chairman of the Health Resource Center for Women with Disabilities at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, a service she founded to provide disabled women with support and information. The center distributes a free newsletter and holds quarterly seminars that promote education and advocacy for disabled women. Panko Reis, who received a $100,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation award, believes that health care providers can improve their facilities by responsibly seeking valuable input from disabled women.
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The Kaiser Foundation Health Plan has begun to allow its enrollees in North Carolina to choose from the physicians in its clinics and 2,000 community doctors in the cities of Durham, Raleigh, Charlotte and Chapel Hill. The health maintenance organization has used this technique in other states in order to increase its enrollment. This technique was chosen because of several polls which have found consumers want to choose their own doctors.
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Health maintenance organizations may attract healthy Medicare patients by offering affinity programs, such as preventive and educational services. For instance, Community Hospitals, of Indianapolis, offers older members discounts on drugs and hearing aids, plus seminars on subjects including blood pressure and diabetes. The HCFA monitors such programs, to prevent mistreatment of Medicare patients.
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